Sunday, February 22, 2015

I play with words and images. I've always considered it play, even when I'm dead serious about what I'm trying to say or show. I love the process, and sometimes the process is just about seeing what might happen if . . . So these days I'm playing with photos, how two images can create something new. Sometimes I find images that play well together, like the one above. Seals on the beach in California and dead trees on a blue day in Chautauqua, New York. I would never have found this image if I didn't play, always trying something new, allowing myself the time to make mistakes.

An aside: My father, Kirk Willis, was an actor and director. The word play has been part of my life since my earliest memories.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

I'm playing with diptychs. How two images speak to each other. The person viewing them makes up a story, how they relate to each other. It's sort of what the fiction writer does, creating images and moments, not wanting, or even able, to put it all in, leaving room for the reader's imagination.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Without words these days, but still seeing what kind of startling fiction can come from truth, and how truth is only our own fiction, the world as only we see it. So images, for now. My own. None of these are true.

Monday, July 1, 2013

Monday, June 24, 2013

At times, I have to leave writing alone for a while, play with other things. Be other places besides in my head with all those words and plots and characters. So, that's where I am right now, playing with photography, and that's what I'm going to put on this blog for a few weeks. Simple images I'm collecting, holding them in place by sharing them. Let me know what they say to you.